With regard to last week’s editorial, a number of readers called or emailed to remind us that this is not the first instance in which questionable tactics have been used in Tusten elections. One incident that still raises eyebrows for many is the election in 2007 in which absentee votes, most of which were from the Narrowsburg Adult Home, flipped the election—and showed a radically different percentage of votes for each candidate from the machine votes cast the night of the election. At the latest board meeting, a townsperson mentioned a recent letter making unfair allegations against Peg Harrison that had been distributed by hand. To us, the fact that there have been precedents—and not only in Tusten, but in other local towns—for illegitimate campaign tactics, merely underlines the main point of the editorial: we would like to see our elections be straightforward debates about issues, determined by an informed electorate and contested by persons willing to put their names behind their assertions.